Yes, but I'm still looking for the answer to your original question.
If the diffs are tied to the fulls as a set/same object, doesn't that mean if 
you do one full and then do diffs for 6 months, that you end up with 6 months 
of diffs in storage, no matter what the retextra/retonly setting?


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Same management class is used for both full and incremental

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Hi,
The Full Backup and Inc Backup are the same object for TSM.

That mean if you backup the Full Backup with Managment Class A then backup 
Incremental with MG Class B, TSM will then change the FULL backup to MG Class B.

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Ämne: What if

What if there were a

1)      storage pool with retonly=15 and retextra=15

2)      it received data from a backup node (NDMP) process

3)      the NDMP runs a full backup once every six months

4)      the NDMP run an incremental monthly on the months a full is not run

What data does TSM actually retain?

David